Jean Horstman - "God's Question" (March 21, 1976)

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	(indistinct singing)	0:32
-	Our Lord has said that,	8:55
	all those who come unto him he will not cast out.	8:58
	"Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy latent	9:06
	and I will give you rest."	9:13
	For rest renewal and recreation we come.	9:16
	Let us confess our sins in the company of one another	9:25
	and before God, let us pray.	9:30
	Almighty God we confess unto you	9:35
	that we have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed.	9:39
	We have neglected opportunities of good.	9:44
	We have sought the things which are temporal	9:48
	and have forgotten the things which are eternal.	9:51
	Therefore we besiege you to have mercy upon us.	9:55
	From the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes	9:59
	and the pride of life good Lord deliver us.	10:03
	Strengthen us by the power of the Holy Spirit	10:07
	to fight the good fight of faith,	10:11
	to endure hardness as good followers of Jesus Christ,	10:14
	to rule our bodies by temperance	10:19
	and our spirits by meekness,	10:21
	and to glorify you alike with our bodies and our spirits	10:24
	which belong to you.	10:28
	Almighty and everlasting God,	10:31
	you hate nothing that you have made	10:34
	and will forgive the sins of all who are penitent,	10:37
	create and making us new and contrived hearts	10:41
	that we worthy lamenting our sins	10:45
	and acknowledging our wretchedness,	10:49
	may obtain from you the God of all mercy	10:51
	perfect remission and forgiveness	10:55
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.	10:58
	Our Lord Jesus Christ, by his own self sacrifice	11:23
	has saved and redeemed us and all humanity	11:27
	by the victory of the cross,	11:32
	the hope of peace and the gift of eternal life are ours.	11:35
	Beloved by the grace of God	11:42
	you are forgiven for Christ's sake, Amen.	11:47
	(indistinct singing)	12:17
-	The Old Testament lesson this morning	14:47
	is from the book of Genesis,	14:49
	the 32nd chapter versus 22 through 30	14:51
	and the 33rd chapter versus one through four.	14:55
	Hear the word of God.	15:00
	"The same night Jacob arose and took his two wives,	15:04
	his two maids and his 11 children	15:08
	and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.	15:10
	He took them and sent them across the stream	15:13
	and likewise, everything that he had.	15:17
	And Jacob was left alone	15:21
	and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.	15:24
	When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob	15:27
	he touched the hollow of his thigh	15:31
	and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint	15:34
	as he wrestled with him.	15:36
	Then he said, let me go for the day is breaking.	15:38
	But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me.	15:43
	And he said to him, what is your name?	15:48
	And he said, Jacob.	15:53
	Then he said, your name shall no more be called Jacob	15:56
	but Israel, for you have driven with God and with men	16:00
	and have prevailed.	16:05
	Then Jacob asked him, tell me I pray your name.	16:08
	But he said, why is it that you asked my name?	16:13
	And there, he blessed him.	16:17
	So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel saying,	16:20
	for I have seen God face to face	16:24
	and yet my life is preserved.	16:27
	The son rose upon him as he passed Peniel limping	16:30
	because of his thigh.	16:33
	And therefore to this day, the Israelites do not eat	16:34
	the sinew of the hip, which is upon the hollow of the thigh	16:37
	because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh	16:41
	on the sinew of the hip.	16:43
	And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked	16:46
	and behold, Esau was coming and 400 men with him.	16:49
	So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel	16:53
	and the two maids.	16:56
	He put the maids with their children in front,	16:58
	then Leah with her children	17:01
	and Rachel and Joseph last of all.	17:03
	He himself went on before them	17:06
	bowing himself to the ground seven times	17:08
	until he came near to his brother.	17:11
	But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him	17:14
	and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept."	17:17
	The New Testament lesson	17:26
	is from the Gospel according to John, the first chapter,	17:27
	the 41st and 42nd verse.	17:32
	Please stand for the reading of the Gospel.	17:34
	"He first found his brother Simon and said to him,	17:43
	we have found the Messiah, which means Christ.	17:47
	He brought him to Jesus.	17:51
	Jesus looked at him and said,	17:53
	so you are Simon the son of John?	17:56
	You shall be called Cephas, which means Peter."	17:59
	Here ends the reading of God's holy word,	18:05
	may it be entrusted unto our hearts and minds.	18:07
	(indistinct singing)	18:12
-	With one voice, let us affirm our faith.	18:53
	We are not alone, we live in God's world.	18:58
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	19:02
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	19:07
	to reconcile and make new.	19:10
	Who works in us and others through the spirit.	19:13
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	19:17
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	19:22
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	19:25
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	19:31
	our judge and our hope.	19:34
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	19:37
	God is with us, we are not alone.	19:41
	Thanks be to God.	19:45
	The Lord be with you.	19:49
	Let us pray.	19:52
	Oh God, in these moments we come to give thanks,	20:03
	to remember others, to seek for more in life	20:10
	for us and for all your children.	20:15
	We recall with continued gratitude, Oh God,	20:20
	your goodness to us.	20:24
	We give thanks for the rest of the night,	20:28
	for the light of a new day	20:31
	and the hope of fullness of life which lies ahead.	20:33
	We thank you for our senses, by which we can see	20:40
	the splendor of the flowers and the trees,	20:43
	can hear the winds of spring and songs of joy	20:47
	and can smell the freshness of this a new spring.	20:51
	We remember, Oh loving God,	20:59
	the life and conditions of others.	21:02
	There are those we love who have shared death	21:06
	and loneliness with loved ones	21:11
	and who now seek new ways to meaning.	21:13
	There are those we love who have been injured or ravaged	21:18
	by accidents or tragedies and who now suffer pain.	21:21
	Those for whom the present is fleeting moment	21:28
	and the future and unsure way.	21:31
	Many in our own community have suffered the past few days	21:36
	or have waited beside those in pain,	21:40
	Oh God strengthen, give peace and heal.	21:44
	We pray in the name of Christ.	21:53
	Oh God, you know the duties and the tests	21:58
	which lie ahead for each of us, the dangers that confront us	22:00
	and the weaknesses which we possess.	22:04
	In the spirit of Jesus the Christ	22:08
	our living love being Lord.	22:10
	We dedicate to you our studies, our work, our friendships,	22:15
	our family relationships, our recreation, our decisions,	22:20
	our very future, so that in thought and word and indeed	22:26
	we may glorify your name.	22:31
	And then Oh God, may in some way know that abundant life	22:35
	which Jesus came to give.	22:42
	May we leave this place today alive with new confidence	22:46
	and with new hope through Jesus Christ our Lord,	22:54
	who taught us as his disciples to pray praying.	23:00
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	23:04
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	23:10
	as it is in heaven.	23:15
	Give us this day our daily bread,	23:17
	and forgive us our trespasses	23:20
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	23:23
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	23:27
	For thy is the kingdom,	23:32
	the power and the glory forever, Amen.	23:34
	On this the third Sunday in the holy season of Lent,	23:44
	let me welcome you to this service of worship.	23:50
	Welcome some of you back after a few days	23:52
	rest and relaxation.	23:55
	Not as much as you would've wanted I'm sure,	23:58
	but I hope enough to give you strength and peace and energy	24:00
	to go on to endure, at least until the end of the semester.	24:05
	This is a very special day for us.	24:12
	For three years now, we have had the privilege	24:18
	of inviting a student currently enrolled in the university	24:21
	to serve as the preacher	24:28
	for a service of worship in the chapel.	24:29
	When this idea was first discussed	24:34
	among the chapel worship committee members a few years ago,	24:36
	it seemed unanimous consent	24:41
	that it was most fitting and most appropriate	24:42
	that on at least one occasion,	24:47
	one member of the student body	24:50
	would give us the proclamation of the Word of God	24:52
	in our university service of worship.	24:56
	This morning, Ms. Jean Horseman will give us the message.	24:59
	She impressed our committee this year	25:06
	and impressed this minister to the university	25:08
	in a very rich and lively and impressive way.	25:12
	So it will be our privilege	25:18
	to hear her proclaim the Word of God in just a moment.	25:20
	I have one further word.	25:24
	Many of you carry with a New Testament,	25:28
	including the Psalms and the Proverbs,	25:32
	which is distributed to you and to many many other persons	25:35
	by the Gideons.	25:39
	This morning as you leave the service of worship	25:41
	you will be given the privilege of making a contribution	25:45
	to Gideon's International,	25:48
	so that they might purchase more books like this	25:50
	and other copies of the New Testament	25:54
	or copies of the Bible, to distribute them	25:57
	to people and places where they may be used meaningfully.	25:59
	So I invite you not only to worship God	26:04
	during the service of worship by the giving of your gifts	26:06
	but as you leave also to remember this important work.	26:10
	I invite you also to remember the other services of worship	26:15
	which we will have in the chapel this week,	26:18
	as we celebrate together this season of Lent.	26:21
	And so for you, for all of us who worship God here this day	26:25
	may I now present Ms. Jean Horseman	26:30
	and welcome her to the pulpit of her chapel,	26:34
	your chapel this day.	26:38
	Jean?	26:40
-	Good morning.	26:50
	Much of the necessity I feel for sharing these words	26:52
	and ideas with you,	26:54
	comes from my relationship with many people,	26:55
	especially Bob McLaren the pastor	26:58
	of Watts Street Baptist Church	27:00
	and David May the former Baptist chaplain at Duke.	27:02
	These men have enabled me to see a God of incredible grace.	27:06
	If a sermon may be dedicated to anything or anyone	27:10
	besides God, then I dedicate it to the love	27:13
	that these people and these two men have shared with me.	27:16
	Jacob at the Jabbok.	27:22
	A man who was grappling with his God, himself	27:25
	and his relationship to his brother.	27:28
	Fleeing from his stepfather, awaiting the arrival	27:31
	of the brother whose birthright and blessing he'd stolen.	27:35
	Jacob was forced through a relationship	27:38
	and an encounter with God to come face to face	27:41
	with the substance and quality of his life.	27:45
	Whether Jacob's struggle was with a physical	27:50
	or a mental messenger is less important	27:52
	than the fact that in some form or another	27:55
	Jacob violently fought with God.	27:59
	He fought God with the degree of ferocity,	28:02
	with which one might face an enemy	28:05
	or the most despised of foes.	28:08
	As the dawn broke on the side of battle	28:12
	Jacob had physical control of God's messenger	28:14
	and in accordance with Hebrew custom	28:18
	demanded of him some form of blessing.	28:19
	Now the blessing Jacob sought was not a new tent	28:23
	or strengthened battle or a few more wives.	28:26
	What he sought was a portion of God's vitality,	28:30
	some degree of superhuman power,	28:33
	quite frankly Jacob wished to become a type of demigod.	28:36
	It is here that God slipped in	28:42
	one of the many grace notes in this struggle.	28:43
	Instead of striking out an anger destroying Jacob	28:46
	for so preposterous request, God through his messenger	28:49
	asked Jacob a simple yet penetrating question.	28:53
	What is your name?	28:59
	To understand just how threatening	29:02
	that question God asked was, you must understand	29:04
	what a person's name meant to the Hebrews.	29:07
	To our spiritual ancestors a name revealed some essence	29:11
	of the person's personality and character.	29:15
	Before God would bestow any degree of blessing on him	29:19
	Jacob was forced to deal with his definition	29:23
	of his own personhood,	29:25
	and truly that is terrifying and frightful.	29:27
	Do any of us willingly and joyfully approach	29:32
	an honest attempt at self examination?	29:35
	Do we gleefully approach time with ourselves,	29:38
	all the mistakes and all the fears we have had?	29:41
	Or as I think, do we approach God's question	29:45
	with the hesitancy of a boy asking out his first date,	29:48
	a mixture of expectancy and dread?	29:52
	And replied to God's question, naturally enough.	29:57
	Jacob replied, Jacob.	30:01
	A name burdened with the meaning of liar, thief, supplanter,	30:04
	all around sneak a name offering little or no challenge,	30:09
	no call for self-improvement, no sense of expectation.	30:13
	Yet God did not condemn Jacob	30:20
	to this situation for all his life.	30:23
	It is at this time that he performed his second miracle.	30:26
	He rejected Jacob's answer and renamed him,	30:30
	no longer the liar, no longer the thief,	30:34
	now one who had struggled with God and men and lived,	30:38
	now one called Israel.	30:42
	God did not, in renaming Jacob recreate him,	30:45
	rather he offered him	30:49
	the structure on which to rebuild his life.	30:51
	Jacob did not become Israel,	30:55
	rather he received the ability to become Israel.	30:58
	If Jacob had feared God's knowledge of the evil	31:04
	within his life, he had even more reason to fear God now.	31:06
	Merl James and Dorothy Yogovols,	31:12
	described Jacob's predicament in this way.	31:14
	To discover the worst is to face the decision	31:18
	of whether or not to continue in the same patterns.	31:21
	To learn the best is to face the decision	31:25
	of whether or not to live up to it.	31:27
	Either decision may involve change	31:30
	and is therefore anxiety provoking.	31:33
	In his night long struggle	31:37
	Jacob at first saw the worst within him, the old self.	31:39
	However in the dawn, God showed him his possible self.	31:43
	Try to imagine the pain and the fear	31:48
	that Jacob must have encountered all in one night.	31:50
	The experience must have been	31:54
	like going through a house of mirrors.	31:55
	One mirror reveals all the evil, all the bad in your life	31:58
	and another accentuates all the positive, all the good.	32:01
	We are torn between two definitions of self.	32:06
	The evil side of our nature	32:10
	or the goodness that is within our possible selves.	32:13
	That part that is still becoming.	32:16
	In renaming Jacob,	32:21
	God blessed him with the revelation of his humanity,	32:22
	the reality that he could become the good	32:26
	and responsible person that God had from the very beginning,	32:28
	created him to be.	32:32
	Are there many of us that are willing	32:35
	to look into the mirror of God's love	32:36
	and view our own potential?	32:39
	Are we able to realize as Jacob was forced to do,	32:41
	that we have good and evil within us?	32:45
	That along with this evil	32:49
	there is much that is exceedingly good	32:51
	and that it is this good that we are created to fulfill.	32:54
	Can we see that while we are the scum of the earth,	32:59
	we are also the glory of the earth,	33:02
	the crowning touch of creation?	33:04
	And viewing and realizing our potential	33:08
	we could no longer limp through life whimpering,	33:11
	Oh pity me, I'm so incapable, so helpless.	33:13
	Because the possibility of of change	33:18
	and improvement is ours,	33:20
	there is no excuse for remaining in our old patterns.	33:22
	We see the face of God's love	33:25
	and we leave with the joyous responsibility	33:28
	of sharing with the world and with ourselves	33:31
	the truth we have had revealed to us.	33:34
	In our creation God smuggled them	33:37
	some small part of his spirit,	33:39
	allowing us to be shaped in his image.	33:42
	It is this that Jacob feared facing.	33:45
	It is also this divine essence	33:48
	that we are called to fulfill.	33:50
	However, instead of viewing ourselves honestly	33:54
	we like Jacob or more likely to reverse the question	33:57
	and ask God who he is, what is his name,	34:00
	then to attend to his question,	34:04
	to behold his revelation and presence in our lives.	34:06
	We each at some time in our lives	34:11
	enter interim midnight struggle with God.	34:13
	We try to rest ourselves from his love	34:16
	or to seek some superhuman degree of power,	34:19
	instead of fulfilling his plan of servanthood.	34:23
	Jacob did not leave his encounter with God as a ruler	34:27
	or a high keen or the president of General Motors,	34:30
	but as a man resolved to meet his brother	34:33
	and to accept responsibility for his past,	34:36
	he approached Esau and humbleness,	34:40
	in the one the way one might approach his master,	34:42
	but to surprise he was met and embraced	34:46
	and kissed as a loving brother.	34:49
	Accepting responsibility for his actions	34:51
	Jacob did not leave the Jabbok able to defeat his brother,	34:55
	but as a person moving with humility	34:59
	towards the man from whom he'd stolen so much.	35:01
	He came as servant and Esau welcomed him as brother.	35:04
	We come to God as servant	35:09
	only to be surprisingly welcomed as children of God.	35:11
	Our struggle like Jacobs,	35:16
	may come as we run from one brother or sister	35:19
	to conflict with another.	35:21
	Or win for one time we are truly alone,	35:24
	feeling the deep penetrating piercing loneliness	35:27
	of limited humanity.	35:31
	Or when our expectations of ourselves are so low,	35:33
	we refuse or unable to accept God's definition	35:37
	of our personhood.	35:41
	Wherever the encounter occurs we all at some time	35:43
	will struggle with God.	35:47
	Ourselves and our responsibility to our brother and sisters,	35:53
	our logical conclusion and extensions of that struggle.	35:57
	The dawn will find us fortified	36:02
	and able to responsibly face life	36:04
	and the mistakes we've made	36:07
	or still running from one Jabbok to another,	36:09
	unable to face the truth of how God sees us	36:12
	and dreams of us becoming.	36:15
	You may ask why the struggle with God and even more,	36:19
	you may ask why the acceptance of the new name,	36:21
	of the new position as children of God.	36:24
	Why?	36:28
	Because like Jacob, we are all inwardly seeking order,	36:29
	some meaning to the chaos within and surrounding our lives.	36:33
	We are able to suffer and to suffer quite gallantly	36:37
	if only some is evident in that suffering.	36:40
	Jacob's life was woven of violence,	36:44
	deceit and powerlessness.	36:46
	He was tricked into working 14 years	36:48
	instead of seven for his wife Rebecca.	36:50
	And all his life he ran in some form another from Esau	36:53
	and a deceitful relationship with his brother.	36:57
	There was no time for deciding who he was,	37:01
	much less what he was created to become.	37:04
	We also are surrounded by chaos, papers to write,	37:09
	books to finish, weary day in and day out patterns	37:13
	we allow ourselves to be trapped in.	37:17
	We are further beset by a group of questions	37:19
	about our past, our present and our future.	37:22
	What am I to do with my life?	37:26
	How much am myself am I going to dare to risk	37:28
	with the rest of humanity?	37:31
	What is my responsibility for what I know	37:34
	from my pursuit of knowledge?	37:37
	Who am I?	37:39
	Or perhaps more importantly, what am I becoming?	37:41
	We seek for answers to questions	37:46
	that lead only to more questions,	37:48
	we are burdened by a search for order and meaning	37:50
	in a life that is in flux.	37:53
	In the "Testament of Devotion," Thomas Kelly	37:55
	a Quaker theologian, affirms the Jabbok experience	37:58
	as the source of renewal and stability.	38:02
	He says, "No one may face God and live	38:05
	in the same old patterns."	38:10
	And looking on God, we recognize that part of him	38:12
	that is within us.	38:15
	A basic and change demanding aspect of our humanness	38:20
	is revealed us.	38:24
	The power to realize this new potential	38:26
	and to risk oneself in the chaos	38:28
	comes from leaving our Jabbok, our midnight encounter	38:30
	with a knowledge of God as friend.	38:33
	Herein is the first step to the road to peace	38:37
	with ourselves and with our fellow man.	38:40
	The tradition of God calling us to fulfill our creation	38:45
	as being in his image	38:48
	is not a phenomenon of only the Old Testament.	38:49
	Jesus continued the renaming tradition	38:53
	and calling Simon Peter,	38:55
	and the spirit of God continues the tradition today,	38:57
	calling each of us to fulfill the potential given to us	39:00
	in our creation.	39:04
	The way is extremely difficult	39:06
	for we are called to redefine our mission in life,	39:08
	our possibility, our future.	39:12
	God calls us as he called Jacob to struggle	39:15
	with himself, our fellow humans and our personalities.	39:19
	As Jacob, we leave our Jabbok	39:24
	painfully aware of our humanity,	39:26
	but knowing that we will prevail because of God's love	39:29
	and God's grace.	39:33
	In a book called "Born to Win,"	39:36
	James Aubrey creates a delightful parable	39:38
	that recaptures the essence of Jacob's struggle.	39:41
	In conclusion, I offer the parable of the Eagle.	39:44
	Once upon a time, walking through a forest	39:50
	a certain man found a young Eagle.	39:53
	He took it home and put it in the barnyard	39:55
	where it soon learned to eat chicken feed	39:57
	and to behave as chickens behave.	39:59
	Well, one day a naturalist was passing by	40:03
	and inquired to the owner,	40:05
	"Why it was that the Eagle, the king of all birds	40:07
	should be continued to live in a barnyard	40:10
	eating chicken feed?"	40:14
	"Since I've given it chicken feed	40:16
	and trained it to be a chicken	40:17
	it has never learned to fly," replied the owner.	40:19
	"It behaves as chickens behave so it is no longer an Eagle."	40:22
	Still insisted the naturalist.	40:27
	"It has the heart of an Eagle	40:29
	and can surely be taught to fly."	40:31
	After talking it over the two men agreed	40:34
	to find out whether or not this was possible.	40:36
	Gently the naturalist took the Eagle in his arms and said,	40:40
	"You belong to the sky and not to the earth.	40:44
	Spread forth your wings and fly."	40:48
	The Eagle however was confused and did not know who he was	40:52
	and seeing the chickens eating their food	40:55
	he jumped down to be with them again.	40:57
	Undismayed,	41:01
	the naturalist took the Eagle on the following day	41:02
	up on the roof of the barn and urged him again saying,	41:04
	"You are an Eagle stretch forth your wings and fly."	41:08
	But the Eagle was afraid of his unknown self	41:13
	and jumped down once more to eat his chicken feed.	41:15
	On the third day, the naturalist took the Eagle	41:20
	up on the high mountain and there he held the king of birds	41:23
	high above him and encouraged him again saying,	41:26
	"You are an Eagle, you belong to the sky	41:30
	as well as to the earth,	41:33
	stretch forth your wings now and fly."	41:36
	The Eagle looked around back towards the barnyard	41:40
	and up towards the sky, still he did not fly.	41:43
	Then the naturalist lifted him straight up towards the sun	41:47
	and it happened that the Eagle began to tremble,	41:51
	slowly stretching his wings.	41:54
	And last with a triumphant cry,	41:57
	he sorted away into the heavens.	42:00
	It may be that the Eagle still remembers the chickens	42:05
	with nostalgia,	42:07
	it may even be that he occasionally revisits the barnyard,	42:09
	but as far as anyone knows,	42:13
	he has never returned to lead the life of a chicken.	42:15
	He was an Eagle, though he had been kept captive	42:19
	and tamed as a chicken.	42:22
	We too are called to be kings and queens,	42:26
	but the difficult part is that	42:29
	we must do it in the guise of servants.	42:30
	God holds as high on the mountain top,	42:34
	he lifts us up from our own private valleys	42:36
	and we may take wing and fly and reached unimagined heights	42:39
	or we may jump down and continue eating our chicken feed,	42:43
	confined by our fears and inability	42:47
	to accept the vision of ourselves	42:50
	that God in love and grace and concern offers to eat of us.	42:52
	Amen.	42:58
	May we pray?	43:00
	Father, we thank you for your patience	43:05
	with our limited vision,	43:07
	for our tendency to seek the easy way,	43:09
	to accept the chicken feed instead of becoming the Eagle.	43:11
	We ask God that in these days to come	43:15
	that you will be give us the courage	43:18
	and give us the love to step forward	43:20
	and to look and to ask who we are.	43:22
	And that in the process we will see	43:25
	what you have to give to us.	43:27
	We thank you father for the love to do so	43:30
	and for the support that you give	43:32
	and we ask God your blessing upon our lives.	43:35
	Open our eyes, reveal to us the miracles	43:40
	that you have smuggled in up on us	43:43
	that we so often forget to see, Amen.	43:45
	(indistinct singing)	43:51
-	"Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord	58:20
	will enter into the kingdom of heaven,	58:23
	but those who do the will of my father in heaven."	58:26
	Oh God, we give these gifts now as part	58:31
	of our doing your will.	58:35
	Take us from this place to do more in love	58:39
	for you and for our neighbors,	58:44
	for the sake of Jesus Christ who loved us	58:48
	and give himself for us, Amen.	58:51
	(indistinct singing)	58:58
	Now will you receive this blessing?	1:02:52
	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,	1:02:56
	the love of God,	1:03:00
	the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:03:03
	be with you and with those whom you love and forever.	1:03:07
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:14
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:27
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:48
	(instrumental music)	1:04:28
	(applause)	1:13:43

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Title:

Jean Horstman - "God's Question" (March 21, 1976)

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March 21, 1976

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Horstman, Jean

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